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One year ago there was one battery-electric SUV on sale, the
. This year there are two, with the addition of the first legacy OEM entry, the
. Over the next two years, at least nine more all-electric high haulers will get in on the buzz, from old-timers like
to fresh turks like
– and this doesn’t include
nor the ever-faltering
.
Autocar
reports
has another electric
up its Ingolstadt sleeve after the
, preparing for a concept showing sometime early next year before going on sale in late 2020 around the same time as the
.
In 2017,
Audi said it planned to bring three EVs
to market by 2020, adding nine more such models by 2025.
Autocar
said this new entrant will be sized between the
(pictured) and
, making it the smallest and most affordable
in the German maker’s lineup. Assuming it shows up on time, this little guy would be
fourth EV in the aforementioned timeframe after the E-Tron,
, and E-Tron GT. It will also be a clear member of the family, Audi design chief Marc Lichte confirming the same inverted grille, intakes, and shoulder line from the larger siblings for the entry-level EV.
On our
, Audi told us it was working with three SUV platforms: a heavily reworked MLB Evo architecture for the E-Tron SUV and derivatives, J1 for the E-Tron GT – shared with the
– and the coming PPE, developed with
for future EVs. Autocar says the unnamed Q EV will use the
Group’s MEB platform, developed first for the ID line of cars and crossovers due to launch next year with the
and eventually shared with
and
, too.
This vehicle
sounds like the A3-sized electric car
– down to the launch timeline – that Audi’s head of exterior design talked to
Auto Express
about at the
. At issue is whether it will be a traditional hatchback, as
Auto Express
calls it, or a crossover, as
Autocar
calls it. For reference, the MEB-based ID Neo, which
calls a hatchback, is about the size of a
.
Since we don’t get the Q2 in America, but we do get the
, A3 Sportback E-Tron
, and
, we don’t know if whatever Audi reveals will head to international markets only.
Audi has said that its MEB platform
offerings “[serve] as the basis for a series of Audi e-models, particularly in the high-volume A segment. One of these is being developed specifically for the requirements of China, the single most important market.”
Alongside these four models, Audi will bring five more SUVs to market before 2025, leaving room for some Avant EVs in the pipeline.
Assuming on-time deliveries, by the time late 2020 gets here, our domestic
mainstream EV SUV playing field
will add the
,
,
,
,
pickup and
,
,
, and
.
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